Discussion on: Should every project be in its own VirtualBox VM?

[rhymes]

Maybe Docker will work for you.

Virtual Machines are quite heavy, Docker is an alternative to have multiple machines sharing resources.

This should help:

Docker - Introduction

Johannes ・ Dec 6 '18 ・ 4 min read

#docker #devops #development

[Kristjan Grm]

Thanks for your reply! But when I have Docker running on my computer I cannot use VirtualBox because one of them requires certain feature to be turned off or something like that.

I use virtualbox for its visual expirience aswell. Is it possible to run docker as a virtual machine with desktop and everything?

[Clive Da]

yes absolutely use docker in your vm preferably with a lightweight distro such as lubuntu or xubuntu

[Avalander]

I was going to suggest the same. I use docker a lot, it's really convenient if you work with multiple stacks to avoid polluting your machine with a dozen different runtimes and build systems, and hundreds of native libraries and packages.

[Clive Da]

absolutely use docker for each new project (works fine inside an xubuntu virtualbox vm)